The traditional choice of asset allocation includes stocks, bonds, liquidity and real state. In the last five years, as a result of the effects of speculative bubble and the growth of interest rate, the attention of the managers of the portfolio has shifted to alternative assets, like hedge...

A number of investors and portfolio managers are increasing the presence of alternative assets in their portfolios to a level close to traditional assets, harbouring the new frontiers in asset management research, including new risk premia, alternative beta, multifactor models. We build an...

We analyse the evolution of the hedge fund industry and try to assess whether this alternative investment class makes sense over the traditional one. We are concerned with the impact of the crisis. Common sense tells us that that during phases of market euphoria, possibly due to over-optimism,...

We analyse the relationship between large cap returns and sentiment indexes, using a Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) framework. We try to provide a better explanation of asset prices and their deviations from standard theories by means of sentiment indicators, assuming the latter being...